On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 01:19:26AM +0200, Stefan Potyra wrote:
> 
> Hm... these versions get calculated at build-time, right?

At source package creation time.

When "debian/rules update-generated-files" is run, before
dpkg-buildpackage.

> So I assume, that if 
> a package gets binNMU'd, the binary versions would be in there as 
> [build-]dependencies? For Ubuntu, this would cause some trouble to go more 
> out of sync with unstable, since we cannot do binNMUs and must do source 
> uploads instead.

Right, binNMUs don't really work.

> However I currently don't see a better way at the moment. 
> Finally having tight dependencies does help Ubuntu a great way (as it 
> happened in the past that rdepends of haskell libraries in Ubuntu were not 
> rebuilt when these should have been).

*nod*


Thanks
Ian


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